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Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...

Peter Grose's Operation Rollback

onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...

Projecting What U.S. International Relations Will Be Like in The 21st Century

cope within a new geopolitical global environment. We have seen a pulling back of support in numerous arenas. One of the events ...

Overview of Major Events of Western Civilization

of nobles, officials, merchants and peasants alike. Even more importantly Henry the Great cared about his people and his country....

Sputnik Shock

less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...

Real World Communism

In six pages Karl Marx's concept of Communism along with Lenin's interpretation are discussed and a comparision between the Bolshe...

Central Intelligence Agency's Hierarchical Structure and Function

In 8 pages this paper examines the hierarchy of the CIA and considers its functions with a primary focus being on the Cold War. E...

Central Intelligence Agency's Role

In eight pages this paper discusses the CIA's role in regions such as Guatemala and Chile and such topics as technology and the im...

International Relations Perspectives on Power

In five pages this paper considers political power, its nature, and the post Cold War climate as each pertains to international re...

Rich and Powerful Nations and Third World Government Corruption

of the Cold War, the Third World became an unfortunate battleground of economic ideals as put forth by the worlds reigning superpo...

Operations of the Central Intelligency Agency

In seven pages the Cold War arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is discussed in terms of CIA experiences and the roles...

International Conflict, Realism v. Constructivism

when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...

Containment Policy of George F. Kennan

because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...

1980s' Soviet Union

Soviet infrastructure was weak. However, they believed wholeheartedly in Marxist theory and the inevitability of Communism, which ...

The New World Order and Atomic Power

nuclear proliferation had to be a reality. It was. But others have a different point of view. The origin of the term is Latin. P...

Failed Covert Operations In Evan Thomas's "The Very Best Men"

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

US Military's Spending Wastefulness

In eight pages this paper examines post Cold War waste by the US military with the focus being on government spending issues. Ten...

Progress of the Space Program

otherwise come into existence if it were not for the inherent desire to be the best. Humans have forever longed to explore ...

Questionable Guilt of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

In fifteen pages this paper examines the Cold War 'Red' hysteria that gripped the United States during the early 1950s and how thi...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

In ten pages this paper analyzes the novel's presentations of the government, the social culture during the time period, the prota...

Richard M. Nixon's Involvement in Detente

In eight pages detente is examined in an historical overview beginning with years just before the Cold War, the nuclear armament b...

Reagan Administration's Military Buildup

of San Salvador in November 1989 and the government continued to be responsible for murders carried out by right-wing death squads...

J.F.K. and Bill Clinton and the Defense of Liberty

The writer discusses how these two Presidents approached the problems of defending liberty, both at home and abroad. Their approac...

Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone

Mathematician John von Neumann's biography by William Poundstone entitled Prisoner's Dilemma is examined in five pages and include...

Latin America and Its Dark History

This paper considers the impact of the Cold War in Latin America and the atrocities committed in the countries of Argentina and El...

American Warfare

In four pages this paper examines the period from the American Revolution to the Cold War to examine how America's style of warfar...

The Struggle for World Peace: More Attainable Now Than Ever Before

This 5 page paper argues that with the end of the Cold War, world peace is now potentially more attainable than at any time in his...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

This paper consists of a seven page rebuttal to the statement, 'As a creature of the Cold War, NATO is an institution that has out...